I think I’d rather trust Lothar with them. Sure he might turn on you and one day use them to kill you if the price is right…But at least he’s not an idiot who might end up shooting you because he was bored and his gun is shiney…

Well.. they are on a ledge right? I would have Luthor slag the floor AROUND the circle… either 1. The circle breaks and Eastwood kills him. 2. He falls to his death. 4 no wait… 3. He falls out the circle and blam blam, or 4. Circle is broken and Kevin eats him as he comes through… still leads to us all being ROYALLY screwed… but at least no God Tier for Morth.

Y’kno it may be just me but Morth does seem a lot more calm and collected then he was during their last encounter.
Then again he doesn’t have a horde of idiots around him this time…come and think of it where did his handmaiden and the two thugs go?

To be fair, in their last encounter, the guys blew the roof off his fortress and rappelled in with a Black Guard platoon. Would stress a dude out.

I nearly had Rogue and Loth take out the thugs as they enter in panel 2. But there was enough going on in the comic already, and I got lazy. You can see how Rogue is looking off to the side, not at Morth. So at least somebody’s over there, off-frame.

Sadly the circle does not protect him from Eastwood’s remembering Kevin’s name.
I mean come on, Morth had a totally awesome pose with the green hell fire that was perfectly timed for a cool reveal… and then Eastwood puts him in his place.

I like how Morth mentions his spies, telling us how he knew Eastwood had the bookend and revealing how none of the other inquisitors knew about/could find him.

Don’t know, some series have circles for both the summoner and the demon.

And actually I think some “real-world” schools of magic state that the pentagram is to confine the summoned… thing so that it doesn’t kill the summoner. Seeing as the Satanic Bible denounces that as cowardice (a true Satanist would stand in the circle with the conjured spirits and subdue them by force of will alone)

No, I’m sure the magic the summoner uses is enough to sustain the summoned once it eats it for a while… A few weeks, at least, if the summoner is capable of summoning anything capable of killing him.
It’s just that I would be pretty certain the summoned would survive LONGER if he didn’t hastily gorge himself and let the summoner feed him magic SLOWLY, letting it regenerate, providing more.

Of course, a Patterner Demongod would have anticipated that his minion would predict he’d try to backstab him (as Morth anticipated that whats-his-name would anticipate Morth trying to backstab him), and have thousands of plans to prevent this, so that his own backstab goes smoothly, so….

Well, when they rappelled in from the roof, they apparently knew Morth had said ‘i didn’t expect a mobian inquisition’. So they might have heard Jamilla say ‘did you all know the demon you’re summoning is named kevin?’ or they may have heard the various cultists talking about it.